gw_westdale

Apologies no - tried again but no luck. If it happens again, I'll report.

Hi @gw_westdale,
Just to confirm I'm seeing the same crash in the 2.3.0.2096 Beta when creating styles from vector brushes with a pressure profile attached. It's not only affecting vector brushes but any object where 'Add Style from Selection' is selected from the Style Menu.
I've attached a crash report...
Affinity Designer 2 Beta-2023-11-01-081644.ips

The problem with simply duplicating and flipping your line is that you automatically change the reading direction from Left to Right to Right to Left on the duplicate so one approach (as per the video) is to merge the duplicated and flipped curve making it one continuous curve so you are always typing in a Left to Right direction and where you can then control the start and end points for the text...
This way you also don't end up having to add spaces between words or characters to control the spacing which would get awkward if the text content changes...
Anyway, it's only one approach, I'm sure there are others...

Many thanks for providing these for me, it's certainly helpful!
I can see that this has been reported as a bug previously to our team, I agree that I would not expect the text to 'flip' also - or that you are offered the choice to have the text flipped if required.
I'll be sure to 'bump' the development log with your thread now, to bring this to our teams attention once again
My apologies, I had forgotten the difference in expected behaviour here when using Open Curve objects. As I understand it, this is not a bug. As they are unfilled, unclosed objects, the result of any Boolean operation (ie 'Add') is empty and the curve is removed.
I hope this clears things up!

Here you go Dan  C-- my first time trying to snip a video so I hope it works ok ...
1) draw curve, ctlC/ctlV and Flip the curve, add text to each curve
2) darw shapes circle and square and a curve - add each one to itself in turn - shapes go to curves , curve disappears
Disappearing Add.mp4 ctlCctlVFlip.mp4 ctlCctlVFlip.afdesign

Thanks walt -- but flip then using geometry add   has the weird effect that the line completely disappears from the layers 🙂
Feels like a matter/antimatter situation !
Another possible buguette
edit : Using add on  single shape or text converts the item to curve -- on single curve, the curve vanishes.

Has this died or is it being considered in 2.1 ?  A cascading menu for artboards that referenced the ones used for documents could be a real help and would allow addition of custom ones all in one place.

Yes - I have had a bit of a hard time with importing in this last couple of weeks. [ And I qualify this with saying I love the Affinity suite. ]
I have several related political leaflets all with the same set of text styles set up as a hierarchy .  content -> intro para -> intro para bold ......
One candidate has a good idea with his text and I  copy it to another candidate's leaflet. Bingo - multiple 'content/ content 1/ content 2' styles that then have to be cleaned up rather that smoothly dropping the text in 'content' para style into the destination 'content' para style.   
PLEASE can we have a paste that moves text to the intended target style where the style names are the same.
Probably a  'paste keep style' would satisfy those that want a literal image of a source document in the  target and there is a clash of style names.
 

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
In Version 2 we added the use of square brackets to increase and decrease stroke weight on the fly in the pen, pencil and move tools. By request we have now activated this while in any of the shape tools, as well as the node tool. In the case of the node tool square brackets will only change stroke weight if you do not have a node selection (in which case square brackets adopts previous behaviour of selecting next / previous node).

I prefer not to have unrealistic expectations based on new features. However, the ability to manipulate fills in vectors like this one makes me feel ecstatic and reminds me of my childhood. I am already envisioning the endless possibilities that we can achieve using this feature alone!

Hi gw_westdale,

This is something we do have logged. 

Lovely. Some really cool uses - great 'hearts'.   There seems to be an issue with butt alignment ... some artifacts centre column ? 1732 beta Windows
 
 

balanced dots.afdesign

Thanks  Walt - glad I'm not going insane ... at least not in this case

yes 😆

@Ash, minor niggle but as the dash and gap values are now draggable would it not make sense for the phase value to be draggable as well...

The improvement to the application of dashed strokes is beyond brilliant, it may only be a small change but it is hugely welcome, definitely looking forward to the addition of non-integer value adjustments in a future release but even the simple drag action for setting dash and gap intervals makes this feature so much more intuitive and dramatically improves the workflow for dashed lines and finally allows us to create professional layouts using dashed lines where before, well, you really just couldn't, thank you... 👏

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows and macOS
For the convenience of Beta testers we have add an option in preferences to migrate all settings and content you have in your retail versions over the beta versions at anytime. You can find this under the beta menu of preferences.

Apps: Designer and Photo
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
Both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo now have the option to "Show Special Characters" if required. This is available from the top Text menu on desktop, and via the preview mode drop down on iPad.

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows, macOS and iPad
A few new features have been added to the stroke panel...
1. As has been commonly requested we have now added the ability to 'balance' dashed lines using a new toggle button on stroke panel. This means that the dash pattern is automatically rescaled between any cusps in a curve - making things such as corners of a rectangle or the start and end of a stroke look correct.

2. An additional dash and gap have now been added to build up more complex dashed line patterns (now giving you 3 dash and 3 gaps) making, among other things, two dot chain patterns possible. On desktop you can also click-drag the dash and gap indicator as shown to adjust the value. 

3. A new button has been added to clear any arrowheads on a stroke - just making it more convenient than having to open the drop downs to set both ends to "None".
 

 
 

Note that, for ease of loading, you can select multiple files in one operation when you Import from the Brushes panel. Or in V2 you can use File > Import Content and select multiple files.

Great -- many thanks ... I'll raise it as a beta bug and cross reference this
 

I see the same as you, and it seems to be a known problem
Convert the warp group to curves seems to be the best suggestion at the moment
You can always undo that step after you print it

There's something about Print to PDF and Export to PDF in the respective mechanisms that I can't remember at the moment but I will try to find it. I know there's a difference and this difference may explain why it's doing this. I'm not sure if its the same 
 
 

Think that's fair comment, we'll add it to Designer and Publisher too

Apps: All
Platforms: Windows and macOS
New options added in file menu to close all currently open documents. If modified documents are currently open this will result in a prompt as to whether you want to save, with an additional option to Apply to All... 

The Default shortcut will be assigned as:
macOS: ⌥ ⌘ W
Windows: Alt + Ctrl + W

Expected behaviour on Close All:

All unmodified documents should close
The last modified document should produce a prompt to save, don’t save or cancel - with an Apply to All... check box option on the dialog.
Assuming Apply to All... isn’t checked then it goes through each modified file sequentially where you choose to save or not, still with the option to apply to all remaining documents at anytime.
Hitting Cancel at any time stops the operation at whatever point you got to, leaving open whatever documents were left. You should not get prompted to cancel for each open document, and Apply to All... is not relevant to the cancel operation.
If you have Apply to All... checked and hit Save:
All modified documents which have previously been saved just perform a save operation to overwrite the file and close.
All untitled documents give save as prompt, and goes through each one sequentially for you to give a file name / location for Save.
If you have Apply to All... checked and hit don’t Save, everything closes with no further prompts and nothing being saved.